Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing induces megabase-scale chromosomal truncations

  • Grégoire Cullot,
  • Julian Boutin,
  • Jérôme Toutain,
  • Florence Prat,
  • Perrine Pennamen,
  • Caroline Rooryck,
  • Martin Teichmann,
  • Emilie Rousseau,
  • Isabelle Lamrissi-Garcia,
  • Véronique Guyonnet-Duperat,
  • Alice Bibeyran,
  • Magalie Lalanne,
  • Valérie Prouzet-Mauléon,
  • Béatrice Turcq,
  • Cécile Ged,
  • Jean-Marc Blouin,
  • Emmanuel Richard,
  • Sandrine Dabernat,
  • François Moreau-Gaudry,
  • Aurélie Bedel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09006-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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CRISPR-Cas9 has been rapidly adopted to generate cell line models of disease. Here the authors show, while attempting to establish a congenital erythropoietic porphyria model, unexpected chromosome truncations generated by a p53-dependent mechanism.